RemoteDebug

RemoteDebug is an initiative to bring a common remote debugging protocol to today's browsers. The vision is to enable a new generation of DevTools and editors that are able to communicate independently of their vendor.

The initiative.

Today each browser vendor is building their own tailormade in-browser development tool (DevTool), together with their own protocol to enable remote debugging of browsers across devices.

These protocols are incompatible with each other, which means existing DevTools can't debug other browsers, and tooling implementers needs to put a lot of effort into adding support for each protocol, with the result that we haven't seen that many integrations.

We need to change this.

The open web follows standards. Our tools should too.

The vision.

The vision is to enable a new generation of DevTools and editors that are able to communicate with our several browsers independently of their vendor.